THE VICTOR: Hewlett-Packard Co. says it won a “tremendous” victory in its battle to force Oracle Corp. to continue making software for one of its server lines. A California state court proposed an order that would force Oracle to support HP’s servers.

CHALLENGE: Oracle says it will appeal.

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THE SPARK: Last summer, Oracle said it would stop developing new versions of its software for servers running Intel Corp.’s Itanium processors, because it believed the chips would soon go out of production. HP, the only major manufacturer of computers based on Itanium, says Oracle had a contractual obligation to support Itanium.